296 KELIQUkE AQUITANIC^E. 



from Aurignac. For cylindrical Dart-heads from Belgium, see Dupont's THomme' 

 &c., 2 edit. 1872, p. 150, figs. 25, 26. 



Page 70, B. Plate IX. fig. 5. The Horse's back is marked across with seven lines 

 or shallow notches. In fig. 5, B.Plate X., p. 71, the Horses are also scored on 

 the back, but with fewer and oblique marks ; whether the lines were intended to 

 represent hair, colour, or perspective is very uncertain. 



Page 79, A. Plate XVIII. fig. 4. These round-notched flakes, adapted for scraping 

 round sticks and stems, are noticed also by Dupont, ' L'Homme ' &c., 2 e e*dit. 1872, 

 pp. 149 & 151. See also A. Plate XXVII. fig. 3, p. 1 17. 



Page 85. After Figs. 18-c insert (fig. 10, p. 88); and after Figs. 19-c insert 

 (fig. 7, p. 87). 



Page 92, B. Plate XI. (see also page 70). Use of Shells for Ornament : 



(1) In a Letter dated September 28, 1868, Dr. ROBERT BROWN., F.L.S., 

 P.R.G.S., observes : 



" Such strings of Shells as that in B. Plate XI. fig. 1 are to this day common ornaments of nearly all 

 savage races, either as necklaces, bracelets (for wrist or ankle), or ear-pendants. 



" The objects figured in B. Plate XI. figs. 2-4 look very much like nose- or ear-pendants. Savages much 

 affect this kind of ornament, as indeed do races far from barbarous, e. g. the Hindoos as far as nose- and 

 ear-ornaments are concerned, and all European and American in the matter of ear-ornaments for the 

 women. Some of the North- American nose-pendants are of great value. On the North-west Coast they 

 are generally made of a flat piece of the nacre of Haliotis Nootkaemis ; and, as a piece of the required 

 flatness is rather hard to get, large sums will be given for them. Sometimes the cartilage (septum) of the 

 nose gets so much broken by continually putting these in and taking them out (for a savage is very proud 

 of his nose-appendage, and will add a better one, or gamble it oif, as circumstances may decide), that I have 

 more than once seen an Indian on the Western Coast of Vancouver (iu the vicinity of Nootka Sound) push 

 his clay-pipe-stem through it so as to be out of the way when requiring to use his hands and blanket !" 



(2) Mr. ALEX. C. ANDERSON, writing from Vancouver Island, November 20, 

 1868, remarked : 



" The shell-relics are interesting ; and I quite agree with the conclusion that they were used solely as 

 ornaments. Among the natives of North-west America some descriptions of shell, from their rarity, have 

 acquired a certain conventional value, but are never employed for monetary exchange like the Cowries of 

 the East. Along the North-west Coast the shell of the Haliotis, procured from the south, is wrought into 

 pendants for the ear or nose, and used also, like the mother-of-pearl when procurable, for inlaying ivory 

 or wooden ornaments. The Hai-a-qua, a species of Dentalium, larger than the D. entails or ' Sea Teeth ' 

 of Europe, was formerly highly esteemed by the Chinooks, a tribe (now nearly extinct) inhabiting the 

 estuary of the Columbia, and continues to be prized by the inhabitants of the southern coast, and by such 

 of the interior tribes as can procure it by barter. These shells, of dazzling whiteness, are used for personal 

 ornaments. Among the Chinooks forty shells, strung lengthwise through their natural perforations, com- 

 posed the conventional 'fathom;' and by so much as their united length exceeded the standard, so, in a 

 rapidly increasing ratio, was their value enhanced. Among the Tan-cully of the Upper Fraser, by whom 



